Site work and paving for a mixed-use development in Palm Desert, California. Completed plans call for site work for a sidewalk / parking lot; for paving for a road / highway; water / sewer project; road / highway; and sidewalk / parking lot.

The City of Palm Desert, (City) invites and will receive sealed Bids for the furnishing of all labor, equipment, materials, tools, services, transportation, permits, utilities, and all other items necessary for Fred Waring Drive Street Rehabilitation Project, Project No. 753-23 (the Project). The Scope of Work consists of making improvements to pedestrian facilities, and drainage and street infrastructure on Fred Waring Drive from Highway 111 to Monterey Avenue. The project will rehabilitate the street section. The items of work consist of mobilization, traffic control, lowering valves and manholes, concrete removal, cold milling, full depth reclamation, installation of base material, constructing asphalt concrete paving, portland cement concrete improvements, installing traffic signal loops and pull boxes, striping with thermoplastic, and raising valve and manhole covers to grade. The project is located generally on Fred waring Drive between Highway 111 and Monterey Avenue. The City is a charter city in the State of California. The City is a thriving community of approximately 50,000 full-time and 32,000 seasonal residents. It is located in the Coachella Valley in eastern Riverside County, part of the low desert region of Southern California. The City features big-city resources in a friendly, small-town setting, offering first class educational opportunities, safe and clean streets, as well as plentiful shopping and community events. Palm Desert is considered the geographical, educational and retail center of the Coachella Valley. Incorporated in 1973, the City operates under a council-manager form of government with a five-member City Council elected at large. Each council member serves a four-year term. The City Council meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at Palm Desert City Hall, 73-510 Fred Waring Drive. The project will make improvements to curb ramps, pedestrian facilities and other infrastructure on Fred Waring Drive from Highway 111 to Monterey Avenue. The project will also rehabilitate the street section. The items of work consist of mobilization, traffic control, lowering valves and manholes, concrete removal, cold milling, full depth reclamation, installation of base material, constructing asphalt concrete paving, portland cement concrete improvements, installing traffic signal loops and pull boxes, striping with thermoplastic, and raising valve and manhole covers to grade. It is the responsibility of each prospective Bidder to download and print all Contract Documents for review and to verify the completeness of Contract Documents before submitting a bid. Any Addenda will be posted Electronically. It is the responsibility of each prospective Bidder to check Electronically on a daily basis through the close of Bids for any applicable Addenda or updates. City does not assume any liability or responsibility based on any defective or incomplete copying, excerpting, scanning, faxing, downloading or printing of the Contract Documents. Information on Electronically may change without notice to prospective Bidders. The Contract Documents shall supersede any information posted Electronically. Each Bid shall be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashiers check, or Bid Bond secured from a surety company satisfactory to the City, the amount of which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total Bid Price, made payable to City of Palm Desert to guarantee the Bidder will enter into a Contract with the City. There will be no Pre-Bid Conference for this project. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Faithful Performance Bond and a Labor and Material Payment Bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer. Pursuant to Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code of the State of California, the successful Bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by City to ensure its performance under the Contract. Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1773, City has obtained the prevailing rate of per diem wages and the prevailing wage rate for holiday and overtime work applicable in Riverside County from the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute this contract. In addition, a copy of the prevailing rate of per diem wages is available at the City and shall be made available to interested parties upon request. The successful Bidder shall post a copy of the prevailing wage rates at each job site. It shall be mandatory upon the Bidder to whom the Contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractors, to comply with all Labor Code provisions, which include but are not limited to the payment of not less than the said specified prevailing wage rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the Contract, employment of apprentices, hours of labor and debarment of contractors and subcontractors. Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. No Bid will be accepted nor any Contract entered into without proof of the contractors and subcontractors current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. In bidding on this Project, it shall be the Bidders sole responsibility to evaluate and include the cost of complying with all labor compliance requirements under this contract and applicable law in its Bids Unless otherwise provided in the Instructions for Bidders, each Bidder shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to sections 7000 et seq. of the Business and Professions Code in the following classification(s) throughout the time it submits its Bid and for the duration of the Contract: Class A General Engineering Contractor. Substitution requests shall be made within 35 calendar days after the award of the Contract. Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(b), City may make findings designating that certain additional materials, methods or services by specific brand or trade name other than those listed in the Contract Documents be used for the Project. Such findings, if any, as well as the materials, methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions. City shall award the contract for the Project to the lowest responsive, responsible Bidder as determined by City from the Base Bid alone. City reserves the right to reject any or all Bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any Bids or in the bidding process. The City is committed to inclusion and diversity and welcomes Bids from contractors of all faiths, creeds, ancestries, and ethnicities without regard to disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or immigration status. The City condemns and will not tolerate prejudice, racism, bigotry, hatred, bullying, or violence towards any group within or outside of our community. Question Submission Deadline:June 23, 2023, 4:00pm